Author: "Gomamon2000"
Email: rangerrick98@juno.com (please be kind when writing)

Digimon: DigiMaster
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Episode Five: Escape from the Lab
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: I'm sorry if any of the digimon names used from now on have already been used in the TV show to mean a different digimon. I haven't seen all the episodes of it yet, so I may have missed some of them. If you find any that have already been used in the show, let me know so I can come up with new names. Thanks! **********************************

LAST TIME: Matt: "Just when I thought my life couldn't get any weirder, Kevin leads us and our digimon to the universe he's from. It turns out that practically the whole world has been taken over by these evil digimon that are controlled by the DigiMaster. The only way to save this world is to destroy the DigiMaster, which will destroy all the evil digimon. But to do it, we have to find four keys scattered all over the planet to unlock the portal into this universe's DigiWorld. I told you it was weird."
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Far off in a dark, scary part of the DigiWorld, the DigiMaster looked at his displays and grinned. For a long time now, he knew that Kevin Mann was trying to stop his invasion of the real world. Of course, he couldn't let that happen, especially not now, when he was so close to total victory. But no matter what he did, he couldn't seem to find the kid. He traced connections when Kevin hacked into his system, but he always ended up finding dozens of access points.

Today, though, this all changed. A spike on one of his monitors showed an unusual energy coming from a laboratory in the United States. *This has to be him!* thought the evil leader. He turned to his minions. "Attack this location! I want Kevin destroyed!"

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"All right, so where do we start looking for these keys?" asked Biyomon.

"Well, I'm not sure," replied Kevin. "But I think I can pull the locations off his computer system. It might take a while, though."

"Here, I'll help." said Izzy, joining Kevin at his computer. As they typed away, the others chatted about different things, just passing the time. Joe kept pacing up and down, mumbling something about being a "nervous wreck."

Getting bored with the waiting, Tai asked, "How long is this gonna take?" Completely ignoring him, or maybe not even hearing him, Izzy and Kevin continued typing away. Frustrated, Tai walked over to the window and glanced out. *Hey, what's that?* he thought. He got out his telescope and checked again. "Um, guys, I think we're gonna have company!"

Everyone but Izzy and Kevin, who were still too absorbed to realize what was going on, ran to the window and looked out. "They look like knights or something." said Sora. "I think we'd better get out of here. Come on, you two!" Izzy and Kevin didn't hear her this time, either. Sora ran over and punched them in the arm.

"Hey!" shouted Izzy, rubbing his arm. "What'd you do that for?"

"There's a whole bunch of nasty-looking digimon heading right for us!"

"What?" exclaimed Kevin. "Izzy, go check that out. I'm almost done downloading the information."

"All right."

Izzy ran over to the window and opened up his laptop. Starting the new Digimon Analyzer, he called up the digimon's profile.

"Sentimon, warrior digimon who are sent in first for an attack and to do small jobs for DigiMaster. So named because they function as sentinels. They are only Rookie level digimon, but in large numbers they can be very difficult to defeat."

"Kevin, we gotta get outta here, now!" yelled Matt.

Kevin didn't look up from his computer screen, but he began typing faster as he replied, "I'm almost done here. We've got to make sure we get it all. Try to slow them down for a while. I only need five more minutes!"

"You heard him guys, let's go!" yelled Tai, as he and Agumon opened the door and ran outside.

"Well, here we go," said Sora, just before she and Biyomon followed.

"Oh, great. 'Here we go.' Am I ever going to have a normal summer again?" asked Joe of no one in particular, then followed the rest of the group outside.

"Here they come! Get ready everyone!" All the DigiDestined and their digimon got ready to fight.

"Pepper Breath!" shouted Agumon as the first of the Sentimon came into range. His fireball knocked out the first group of them.

"Blue Blaster! HA!" cried Gabumon, taking out the second group.

"Spiral Twister!" yelled Biyomon, but the third group of Sentimon dodged and set up for their attack.

"Blazing Lance!" The front three Sentimon of the used their lances to cut arcs of energy in the air, which then flew right for Biyomon.

"Boom Bubble!" Patamon's attack destroyed the energy arcs just before it hit Biyomon, while Palmon's Poison Ivy wrapped up the three who attacked and threw them into the group behind them.

"Super Shocker!" "Lightning Claw!" Tentomon and Gatomon's attacks pushed back the next bunch of attackers.

"They're coming too fast!" yelled Izzy. "We can't hold them off for much longer." He was right. They kept fighting back, but more and more Sentimon showed up and kept getting closer and closer, crowding in on them.

Just then the door to the lab burst open and Kevin came running out with a floppy in one hand and something else in the other. "I got it all!" he shouted, then stopped running as he saw all the Sentimon blocking their way out. "We've got to get out of here!"

"They've got us surrounded. There's no where to go!" cried Mimi.

"Oh yes, there is," said Izzy. "Up." And he looked at Tentomon.

"Right, Izzy. Tentomon digivolve to...KABUTERIMON."

"All aboard," said Kabuterimon. The kids quickly climbed up on his back, while the other digimon held off the Sentimon. Once the kids were on board, the digimon climbed on too, and Kabuterimon took off.

"Blazing Lance!" shouted the Sentimon still standing on the ground.

"Look out, Kabuterimon!" shouted Izzy.

"Electro Shocker!" The blast took out the Blazing Lance attack and kept going to destroy most of the Sentimon still on the ground.

"We did it! We got away!" shouted Joe in disbelief.

"You guys did a great job," said Kevin. "Thank you so much! I was able to get all the information we need on getting the first key."

"Just the first key?" asked Matt.

"Yeah. There are supposed to be instructions with the fire key that tell you where to get the water key, and then instructions there to get the wind key, and so on. I guess he did that for security."

"So where's the fire key?" asked Kari.

"Well, you're not gonna believe this, but it's in the Statue of Liberty. We're going to New York City!"
---End of episode five---
Will our heroes be able to get to New York and find the fire key? What other evil digimon will they have to deal with? Find out in the next episode of "Digimon: DigiMaster"!